SimplySim has released an application that allows you to control either a simulated LEGO ® NXT Tribot in a rich 3D environment or a real Tribot. It includes several sensors and a "claw". Some sample services are provided to demonstrate how to control...

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio Standard and Academic Editions have the ability to import Collada models that have been exported from SolidWorks. These models can be used in the Visual Simulation Environment and can contain physics entities such as...

Microsoft announced on Thursday 26th March, as part of its Unlimited Potential commitment, an expansion of the DreamSpark program to include high school students. By offering free access to the latest Microsoft software, Microsoft is empowering students...

Due to customer demand, both Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) 2008 Standard Edition and CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 Standard Edition are now available to all MSDN Professional and MSDN Premium subscribers, which includes BizSpark customers. This enables customers...

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2
Microsoft has announced the availability of the Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2. This new release is an upgrade to the existing 2008 version. It includes the new DSS Log Analyzer tool and enhancements to...

A series of introductory videos about RDS is being released over the coming weeks. These are intended to be short (about 5 minutes) and cover topics that will help you to get started using RDS. The first video is in three parts and shows how to create...

CoroWare has opened the source of the ClassPack product line. It is now freely available on SourceForge here: http://corobot.sourceforge.net/ . The code includes services for the physical CoroBot , a simulated version of the CoroBot, and an OCU for remote...

The Learn Page on the Microsoft Robotics web site is designed to help you find relevant content from amongst the wide range of resources available for learning about RDS. You can search through the content list in many different ways to find samples,...

A video entitled CCR at MySpace has been released on Channel 9. It describes how the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) has been used to handle requests for data on the MySpace servers which process tens of thousands of web requests per second...

In early December iRobot launched a new web site called SPARK - Starter Programs for the Advancement of Robotics Knowledge. The web site is designed to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. Although it is funded by iRobot...

This week sees the celebration of the first National Robotics Week in the US. Since the foundation of Microsoft Robotics in 2004 by Tandy Trower and where he was Microsoft’s representative (with Stewart Tansley for Microsoft Research) in the Computing...

One of the Robotics Team developers, Emil Gustafsson, has turned his own learning experiences with the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) into a series of blog posts . His set of Tips and Tricks explains in detail how various aspects of CCR work...

The samples from the book "Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio" have been updated to work with RDS 4 Beta and are available for download from CodePlex: http://promrds.codeplex.com
There were very few changes required, but new users will...

A new release of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta 2 is now available that is an update to the Beta released in September at Maker Faire in New York. This new Beta 2 version includes the following:
Support for the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2
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Taking a look back at the recent past in the robotics industry reflects a period full of promise, excitement, anticipation, and rapid evolution. So much movement has happened in the right direction; we've watched closely as robotics technology has begun...

The Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) Simulator is a key feature of the package that allows you to get started without buying expensive robots. It is a great tool for use in education. The add-ons outlined below help you to create your own simulation environments...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Robotics Lab have used a Microsoft Surface as a way to command multiple robots to move around in arbitrary paths. You can watch the video to see how smoothly it works. Visit the Robotics Lab web site...

Microsoft together with their partner, Georgia Tech , developed a comprehensive course for teaching the basics of software engineering as it’s applied to robotics. This course utilizes the Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio R3 for software implementation...

Watch how the Lowell Team from the University of Massachusetts use Surface and RDS to build a very natural user interface for controlling robots for search and rescue. Read Stewart's blog post here for more detail : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive...

Microsoft participates in the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition as a gold sponsor. In addition, Microsoft will deliver a conference session outlining its perspective of the robotics market and will host a technical seminar for hobbyist, commercial...

A typical robot perceives it’s surrounding through an array sensors and interacts with its environment by orchestrating the reaction across one or many actuators. For a decent operation these activities must be performed simultaneously and possibly across...

I suggest that you start with the tutorials to gain familiarity with the programming concepts and the runtime. There are three categories of tutorials installed with Microsoft Robotics Studio ( MSRS )
Service Tutorial:
Step by step the reader...

The following set of pictures was taken by my colleague Stewart Tansley at the Microsoft Booth - RoboBusiness Conference. These pictures show a number of our partners working with us at the booth, demonstrating robotic devices that run our software …